Village Road South & Village Court

Village Road South and Village Court meet at a three-way junction in Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Gravesend Cemetery, one of two Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 580 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, four of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
680 feet · 3 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
McDonald Av/Av U · B90
Within a walk
5 places
4 religious buildings and 1 cemetery, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Village Road South & Village Court Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 680 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave U F
    680 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Ave X F
    0.3 miles
    F
  2. 86 St N
    0.4 miles
    N

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brooklyn Transitions” (2018) by Andrea Belag at the Ave U station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is McDonald Av/Av U, 0.3 miles away, for the B90.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. McDonald Av/Av U B90
    0.3 miles
    B90

Next buses at this stop

  1. B90 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & West 2nd Street, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 2965 86th Street Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 2758 Coney Island Avenue Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.1 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2015.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11223
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
44
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (East)-Homecrest
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2019 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Village Court

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Village Court

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Village Road South

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and built between 1700 and 1725.

  1. Gravesend Cemetery Designated landmark
    580 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 cemetery

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Old Gravesend Cemetery Listed historic place
    520 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Trinity Tabernacle Gravesend Church House of worship
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Village Road South.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.